Learning to Bow: Inside the Heart of Japan
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| Rating | : | 4.17 (902 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0060577207 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 321 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-12-14 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
With warmth and candor, Bruce Feiler recounts the year he spent as a teacher in a small rural town. Fuji, Feiler teaches his students about American culture, while they teach him everything from how to properly address an envelope to how to date a Japanese girl.. Learning to Bow has been heralded as one of the funniest, liveliest, and most insightful books ever written about the clash of cultures between America and Japan. Beginning with a ritual outdoor bath and culminating in an all-night trek to the top of Mt
. BOMC selection. From Publishers Weekly Feiler's account offers an instructive, amusing inside look at a vaunted educational system. Among the cultural shocks he describes is his welcome with a ritual collective outdoor bath. Noting that characteristics such as group loyalty and community responsibility are fostered in a system that requires students to clean their schools and neighborhoods, Feiler lists aspects of the Japanese system that might successfully be translated to American schools, while acknowledging such negatives as the lack of free choice and individual expression. Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc. Invited by the Japanese Ministry of Education to teach English in a junior high school, Feiler arrived, shortly after graduation from Yale, in rural Sano, 50 miles north of Tokyo, where he was the first foreigner seen by many of the
Very interesting but dated. I doubt the Japanese culture B. L. Carpenter Very interesting but dated. I doubt the Japanese culture is still as portrayed in the book.. Cultural lessons disquised by an American sensei in Japan Bruce Fielder pens the story of his experience as an English Teacher in Japan. Similar to "You Gotta Have Wa", this book is more about the experiences of an outsider fitting in to Japan than the occupational hazards of teaching English. To use his own words, Fielder really does c. Five Stars Great